April 9 - 12
Picture links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lotanc/ParqueNacionalPuyehueBanosElCaulle
The crew for this trek included of (from right to left): Limor, Dor (a guy we met in Bariloche), and myself (here in a restaurant after the trek):
We took a bus from Bariloche to Osorno, and stopped on the way next to the park. A small mistake (made by myself) caused us to walk 2 km with all our gear (including gear we left behind during the trek). As you can guess this was a lot of fun:
Somehow, every night we turned up walking during the night. The first day, we started late due to the bus, the other 2 nights it was because we had great weather, were lazy to get up, and preferred to enjoy the sun. Although it is very hard to navigate during the night (even with a full moon), we still made it to where we wanted, although it took much longer (and made us make a few mistakes). But overall this just added to the adventure..One of the highlights of this trek included hiking up to Volcano Puyehue, with snow in its crater, and great views including of other volcanoes:
Another highlight was the hotsprings (this is also where we camped during the second night). These hot springs are as natural as they get. There is a river of cold water and next to it a stream of very hot water coming out (as can be seen in the steam in the picture). When you sit you have to sit where the two streams meet and mix them together (moving to much to one side is to warm and the other is to cold). You have to constantly mix the water to the correct temperature that you want. Usually one side of your body is freezing and the other boiling. This is a do it yourself hot tub..
The last highlight are the geisers, which have amazing colors, sulfur smell, and smoke coming out of the ground. Walking around the geisers was amazing..
The big geisers were like mud baths that were boiling:
At the end of this trek we continued to Osorno, and Chiloe - this will be in the next post.
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